Sally Mann said the wet plate collodion process allows her to be totally involved in the act of making an image. |
He thus invented a new high-performance photographic procedure that considerably reduced the exposure time: wet collodion. |
John Coffer, one of the new pioneers of the old art of wet plate collodion, lives in a 19 th-century-style, two-room cabin he built himself on an upstate New York farm. |
Collodion does not swell in water and is very sensitive to mechanical damage: a collodion layer does not ply but cracks. |
Ambrotype: The wet collodion process was much cheaper than the daguerreotype, and permitted the printing of multiple copies from one negative. |
Her most recent work was photographed with the antiquated collodion process using glass plates. |